Rule #1,106

Avoid social networking the day after an election if you can.

Rule #1,045

I don't have to write a rule on my birthday if I don't want to.

Rule #1,002

Do what makes you happy.

Rule #876 (End of Existentialism Guest Week)

Existentialism Guest Rule #7:

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Rule #875

Existentialism Guest Rule #6:

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Rule #874

Existentialism Guest Rule #5:

Even if someone were able to transpose the whole content of faith into conceptual form, it does not follow that he has comprehended faith.

Rule #873

Existentialism Guest Rule #4:

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Rule #872

Existenial Guest Rule #3:

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

Rule #871

Existential Guest Rule #2:

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Rule #870 (Beginning of Existentialism Guest Week)

Thanks to wonderfulness of this video, I've got existentialism on the brain. Prepare to embrace the nothingness of existence:

Existential Guest Rule #1:

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Rule #834

Philosophically speaking, "human being" and "person" are not equivocal terms.

Rule #833

You can never go wrong with a tautology.

Rule #607

Much like simplicity, complicatedness is subjective, not objective.

Rule #582 (End of Political Philosophy Guest Week)

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #7 (from Sun Tzu):

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Rule #581

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #6 (from Thomas Hobbes):

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Rule #580

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #5 (from Ibn Khaldun):

It is absolutely necessary for man to have the cooperation of his fellow man.

Rule #579

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #4 (from Niccolo Machiavelli)

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot have both.

Rule #578

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #3 (from Adam Smith):

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Rule #577

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #2 (from Hannah Arendt):

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Rule #576 (Beginning of Political Philosophy Guest Week)

Political Philosophy Guest Rule #1 (from Karl Marx):

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.